In Re Gamble

The petition filed herein on 1 August 1955 by J. Arthur Gamble, a nephew of the respondent John Gamble, alleges that John Gamble is incompetent from want of understanding by reason of physical and mental weakness on account of old age to manage his affairs, that recently he has committed great waste of his estate by purported sales and conveyances of his property and by gifts of substantially all his money, and prays that a trustee be appointed to preserve his estate and to recover this property.

Petitioner’s evidence tends to show that on 26 March 1955 the respondent conveyed by three deeds…